Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America (eBook, ePUB)

Trauma, Politics, and Resistance
Redaktion: Llorente, Marina; León, Aída Díaz de; Salvi, Marcella

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of forms of memory-from the most concrete to the performative-that resist forgetting and unite individuals against hegemonic memory. The volume comprises four thematic sections that focus on Chile, Spain, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, and the Dominican Republic. Keeping in line with the concept informing this collection, that the past returns politically to haunt the present, the four sections move from the contemporary context to the colonial and pre-Columbian eras in Latin America. For all its diversity, the researchers' interdisciplinary methodology displayed in this collection brings to light processes that would otherwise have remained illegible under a more narrow interpretative approach to historical memory.

This volume focuses on the processes of remembering in geographies that have been transformed by violence and conflict in Spain and Latin America. In the cases investigated witnessing, trauma, and testimony speak to the urgency of truth and justice; historical memory, therefore, is ultimately a political act.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498507790
• Artikelnr.: 43979340

Autorenporträt

Aída Díaz de León is visiting professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at St. Lawrence University. Marina Llorente is professor of modern languages and literatures at St. Lawrence University. Marcella Salvi is associate professor of Italian and Spanish at St. Lawrence University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction The Politics of the Past and the Fragmentary Present:
Locating Memory in Spain and Latin America, by Aída Díaz de León Part
II: From the Repertoire to the Archive: Memory in Chile after Pinochet
Chapter 1: Performing Memory and Democracy in Chile, by Liliana Trevizán
Chapter 2: Memory in Chile: A Conversation on Democracy. Interview to
Ricardo Brodsky Baudet, Executive Director of the Museum of Memory and
Human Rights in Chile (December 3, 2013), by Oscar D. Sarmiento and Liliana
Trevizán Part III: Literature as Media of Memory in Spain and Latin America
Chapter 3: Everything Is Coming to Light: Re-appearance of Lost History in
Carmen Martín-Gaite's El cuarto de atrás, by Marcella Salvi Chapter 4:
Exile and Erasure: A Poetic Reconstruction of the Spanish Past in Antonio
Crespo Massieu's Elegía en Portbou, by Marina Llorente Chapter 5:
Translation as a Means of Preserving Historical Memory in Spain, Nicaragua,
and Chile, by Steven F. White Chapter 6: Narrativa e ilusión: Argentine
Historical Memory in Una sombra ya pronto serás by Osvaldo Soriano, by
Mallory N. Craig-Kuhn Part IV: The Struggles of Memory in the Global
Market: Venezuela and Mexico Chapter 7: The Children of 1989: Resurrecting
the Venezuelan Dead, by George Ciccariello-Maher Chapter 8:
Depoliticization, Historical Memory, and Resistance to Obliviousness: The
Case of Feminicide and the Cotton Field Memorial in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico,
by Martha I. Chew Sánchez and Alfredo Limas Hernández Part V: The
Palimpsest of Memory: Reconstructing Race, Culture, and Religion from
Colonial Times to the Present in Peru, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic
Chapter 9: Mystic Ringing of Stone Bells: A Case of Annihilation of
Cultural Memory in Peru, by Beatriz Carolina Peña Chapter 10: The Memory of
Black Womanhood in Mexico: La Mulata de Córdoba, by Selfa A. Chew Chapter
11: Casting Traitors and Villains: The Historiographical Memory of the 1605
Depopulations of Hispaniola, by Juan José Ponce-Vázquez